Category: Occultism

H. P. Lovecraft's compelling personality, Abdul Alhazred, is delivered to lifestyles during this epic story detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic background and magical adventures. Alhazred tells his personal lifestyles tale, starting with himself as a bad, good-looking boy in Yemen who draws the eye of the king for his divine ability in poetry. because the courtroom poet, younger Abdul lives a sumptuous lifestyles on the palace, the place he reports necromancy and magic. yet falling in love with the king's daughter ends up in a silly tryst, that is finally found. As punishment, Abdul is tortured, brutally mutilated, and forged into the wilderness, often called the Empty area. fighting madness, he joins a tribe of ghouls and learns forbidden secrets and techniques from a stranger known as Nyarlathotep. hence starts his downward spiral into wickedness. Renamed Alhazred, he escapes the wasteland and embarks on a quest to revive his physique and reunite together with his real love. touring around the historic international and terrific nation-states, he's hounded via foes and laid low with the calls for of his darkish lord.

because the closest scholar of the charismatic religious grasp G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949), Jeanne de Salzmann was once charged with wearing on his teachings of religious transformation. referred to as the Fourth approach or "the Work," Gurdjieff’s process used to be in line with teachings of the East that he tailored for contemporary lifestyles within the West. Now, a few two decades after de Salzmann's dying, the notebooks that she jam-packed with her insights over a forty-year interval (and meant to post) were translated and edited via a small crew of her kinfolk and fans. the result's this long-awaited consultant to Gurdjieff's instructing, describing the routes to be traveled and the landmarks encountered alongside the way in which. geared up based on issues, the chapters contact on all of the very important strategies and practices of the paintings, including:

· awakening from the sleep of identity with the normal point of being · self-observation and self-remembering · wakeful attempt and voluntary suffering · knowing symbolic strategies just like the Enneagram · the Gurdjieff pursuits, physically workouts that offer education in Presence and the attention of sophisticated energies · the need of a "school," that means the collective perform of the educating in a group

Madame de Salzmann brings to the paintings her personal powerful, direct language and private trip in studying to live that wisdom of a better point of being, which, she insists, "you need to see for your self" on a degree past concept and inspiration. De Salzmann regularly refused to debate the educating by way of rules, for this Fourth manner is to be skilled, no longer easily inspiration or believed.

The founding of the Anthroposophical Society in 1913 marked an enormous swap in Rudolf Steiner’s paintings. even if Steiner had consistently been an self sustaining non secular researcher, the holiday with the theosophists got rid of all constraints, making an allowance for a whole flowering of anthroposophy. those lectures are full of a freshness and power that replicate this new starting, supplying interesting glimpses of serious subject matters that Steiner was once to increase within the years ahead.

in the secret cultures of historical heritage, artwork, technological know-how and faith shaped a cohesion that provided course and non secular nourishment to the wider society. this present day, paintings, technology and faith can back be reunited. despite the fact that, as Marie Steiner shows in her creation to those lectures, those points of our tradition want rejuvenation via clean religious figuring out and data. artwork can't be renewed via compromise, yet in basic terms via returning to the non secular foundations of existence. As she says: "The treatment lies in unlocking the knowledge of the Mysteries and offering it to humanity in a kind tailored to modern needs." In those wide-ranging lectures, Rudolf Steiner deals religious perception for the fashionable day right into a revitalised global of the humanities. His subject matters comprise: the relation of artwork to expertise, the ethical event of the worlds of color and track, the mythical Norwegian Dream track of Olaf Åsteson, and the connection among many of the arts of structure, sculpture, portray, tune, poetry, eurythmy and the human being.

The emerging curiosity in goddess spirituality expresses our present have to comprehend the female aspect of God, the Sophia (or Divine Wisdom), and her courting to the masculine points of God. providing a brand new viewpoint, the writer attracts on his personal study and at the educating of Russian thinker Pavel Florensky, in response to whom Sophia has a courting to the masculine Trinity as an self sufficient non secular being.

Robert Powell discusses Sophia as a Trinity-as mom, Daughter, and Holy Soul- and because the female element of Divine Godhead. He connects our reawakening to the female point of God with some of the alterations now occurring on this planet. additionally incorporated is an advent to the Divine female by Daniel Andreev, writer of The Rose of the World.

Exu & the Quimbanda of evening and hearth is the spouse to Pomba Gira. jointly they provide the main whole account of this sorcerous cult. Exu is the fusion of Umbanda, Angolan sorcery, ecu demonology and Kardec’s Spiritsm, erupting in a uniquely Brazilian cult of functional magical motion. Spells, workings, hierarchies and origins are all given in detail.This is an important textual content for college kids of the grimoires, Satanism and standard witchcraft, in addition to these interested in or operating in the cults of Quimbanda, Candomblé, Santería, Palo Mayombe and the African diaspora religions.Quimbanda is a dwelling culture that will get effects. it's a significant storehouse of magical lore, heresies and historical past which has absorbed facets of goetia via such grimoires as Grimorium Verum, purple Dragon, or even Huysman’s Là Bas. The foundation of Exu is explored from the enduring Baphomet of Eliphas Lévi and the effect of St Cyprian, the consumer saint of necromancers, again to Umbanda and the normal African religions. Exu revels in a distinct history that contains a Gnostic account of the crucifixion secret, the hid nature of St Michael Archangel and the local shamanism of the Caboclos.A forceful spirit, Exu presides over the dominion of the area, and gives a fierce course for those who could take him as spouse. The Seven Legions of Exus are ‘hot’ spirits, and their paintings is taken into account black magic. The perils of this paintings are given, with the hazards of obsession by way of the Qlippoth and vampirism defined. counsel is obtainable and the trail to ascension proven. In Exu & the Quimbanda of evening and hearth Frisvold offers specific workings for strong and ailing, a herbarium and info of choices, powders and baths, songs and seals. He discusses the fearsome Exu Mor for the 1st time, an issue no longer taken care of in his earlier works.Frisvold is an intiate and provides an insider’s view, drawing upon his years of expertise within the cult. With entry to texts, manuscripts and private testimony this can be the main definitive paintings on Exu on hand in English.

The impressive discussions during this quantity happened among Rudolf Steiner and staff on the Goetheanum, Switzerland. the numerous subject-matter used to be selected by way of his viewers at Rudolf Steiner's instigation. Steiner took their questions and typically gave rapid solutions. The spectacular nature of those responses - their perception, wisdom and religious intensity - is testimony to his extraordinary skill as a religious start up and profound philosopher. obtainable, exciting and stimulating, the files of those classes could be a pride to anyone with an open brain. during this specific assortment, Rudolf Steiner bargains with issues starting from beetroot to Buddhism! He discusses, between different issues, Christianity and Islam; the Crusades; cemeteries; comets; the zodiac and glued stars; scars; Egyptian mummies; astronomy; Tibet and the Dalai Lama; Freemasonry; superstar knowledge, moon and sunlight religions; the Mysteries; the Trinity; Moses; Easter; the traditional Indians, Egyptians, Babylonians and Jews; Kant and Schopenhauer, and nationalism.